Pinter Two: a masterpiece of dialogue and discomfort

One of the two parts kicking off the Pinter at the Pinter season artfully displays everything that Pinter did so well.

Find love, be happy: The Distance You Have Come

Depression, alcoholism, and fairytale romance: all this and more told through the medium of song in a star-spangled production of The Distance You Have Come at the Cockpit Theatre.

Everybody wants to change the world: Looking at the White Album’s Legacy 50 Years on

Exactly fifty years ago, the year 1968 was to be the beginning of the end for the Beatles. Lennon had finally escaped the clutches of chronic acid tripping, partly due to his burgeoning love for Yoko Ono, partly due to the retreat the band made to Rishikesh where they were

I’m Not Running runs out of steam

Too many issues, too little time.

DRAG at the Hayward Gallery

A wide-ranging exhibition that showcases the variety to be found in the art form.

Bottom: A queer bildungsroman

Written and performed by Willy Hudson, his one-man show Bottom shares funny, awkward and entertaining experiences.

A Tale of Two Halves: Measure for Measure at the Donmar

Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden alternate roles in a retelling that tackles abuse of power and gender politics.

Mutation as a form as music

Tim Hecker warns of an apocalyptic dawn with transcendental acceptance.

The Funny, the Painful and Everything in Between

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City brings together two unlikely strangers in the morbid setting of their mothers’ cancer ward, only for them to connect in a way neither expects.

REDUXER: Turning Water Into Wine

Where RELAXER was a fairly uninspiring mark of alt-J running out of new ideas with a sound that almost embraced their TV-ad music status, alt- J’s REDUXER has taken the same material and reworked it into something masterful.

Mrs Dalloway Brought to the Stage

This ambitious adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel aims high, but fails to capture the charm of the novel.

Minimum to maximum, ambient to aggressive

Aggression has, for the most part, been a matter of force or damage. They yell, the guitars scream, the drums roar. All a product of man’s basest tendencies, a primitive release. Reining it back, Live 2002, is in many ways a controlled exploration of the impulses preceding the violence.